Lockdown/Stay-in-place situation, What are you planning to do?

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Originally Posted by 4bee

This place had a Midden since before 1900. Still find all sorts of stuff but mainly crockery & glass. It is right out the front of the house but fast disappearing under the Walnut trees.

It's what they did back then. Break it, so dump it in the creek. No Dept of Water & Environment back then.
On another heap near the Pump shed i found old Plough parts & tines(?) also next to that heap was the burial ground of all the heavy Horses they had over the years.

Pulled a barrel from a single barreled shotgun out one day, it was being used as a stake for something.

The olde Pump shed contained most of what remained of a rusted 1908 12hp Hornsby Hot Bulb Oil Engine but I was able to restore that to a working polished machine. I was amazed that since 1926 [when it was used last] any loose brass parts hadn't been nicked by workers of all sorts PMG, ETSA etc using the shed as a lunch room out of the weather. The old Cast iron Exhaust Box was being used as a Pipe support & didn't realise what it was until I saw one in a local Museum.

Laying in bed that night when the bell in me 'ead rang. Got it! BEWDY! Up early next morning & reefed it out & restored it. Not the same day I hasten to add, but nearly.

I still find Misc bits & pieces in the Paddocks but alas no gold, not even Fools Gold. [bigsad]


Cest la vie.

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Originally Posted by V8Ian

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Now you will be sorry. Laters.


Just to add.
Walking through next doors one day (previous owners) & again having remembered what the original Heavy gauge fuel tank looked like from the Parts list I spotted it in his junk heap together with an old Holden FJ sedan & other sundry crap. The chrome on the FJ bumper was as good as the day it left the showroom btw.

So I politely asked him that if he wasn't going to use it, may I have it? He didn't say a word but later I noticed he had extracted it from the heap & placed it to one side.

"Aye aye", sez me "he is either going flog it now he realises what it is. or has left it out for me." So being the positive thinker that is one of my character qualities, when he had ****ed off I flew down the hill & requisitioned it forcibly. ie. struggled with it uphill. Possession is 9/10 of the law ain't it?

BUT, stored in it, were Detonators & Fuses that years ago they had used for blasting the Stringy roots out. What to do, what to do? [bighmmm] As it happened his son was getting a cutaway for his new house dug so I knew the bloke who was digging it would know what to do I asked. He just pulled them all out & buried them..

Since a SAPOL Copper had visited my Primary School many many years before to give us kids a safety lecture on Dets & other explosives if we found any, & the only message I recalled was "Don't touch the buggers & call the Police". Well, I wasn't about to do that, they may want details.

Where was NavyDiver back then when I needed him? He would have known. I guess they would have deteriorated over the years anyway but as I didn't know **** from clay back then (still don't) I was glad to get home with my prize.

I have fused & thrown plenty of M26 (HE) grenades before like a few others here, but they didn't scare the arse of me like the Dets & stuff.
That Copper had really made a strong impression on my young mind.

Anyway job was done & all safe & as they say "the rest is history."

Now what was the question again? Ah yes, photos, tomorrow is another day.

Ah yes images.



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As if you can't tell?[bighmmm] LH is restored & running & RH is pre restoration.

Fuel Tank FLH of image.

https://youtu.be/eT5IGtWmQ-M

I planned to finish a few books and I've completed two so far, I even stayed inside the lines, mostly. I think I should've bought more crayons though.[bigrolf]

You know you're feeling isolated when the highlight of your week is loading the trailer for a tip run. Kinda sad really.

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I usually pile all that tree lopping stuff into a heap in the paddock and burn it off during winter.
Its also a good excuse to get the camp ovens out and do some Bush cooking at the same time[thumbsupbig]

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Originally Posted by trout1105

I usually pile all that tree lopping stuff into a heap in the paddock and burn it off during winter.
Its also a good excuse to get the camp ovens out and do some Bush cooking at the same time[thumbsupbig]

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Can't light up a fire here until 1 May like a couple of days ago after it has rained. The Govt. extended the Fire Ban period as well as bringing it forward.

I usually try to lay a Tarp over the heaps so at least the centres are dry & cup of Diesel really get them going.

The rest dries out as the fires develop & eventually it is just ash.

No room for a bonfire here.
That lot cost $26 to get rid of at the tip this morning.

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Originally Posted by DiscoMick

You know you're feeling isolated when the highlight of your week is loading the trailer for a tip run. Kinda sad really.

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I don’t know about that. I like doing the tip run. A small sense of achievement is had when something is tidied up around the yard.